(I've spent plenty of time clawing through university archives in fervent search of some bit of recorded arcana, only to be told by an exhausted-looking research associate that it's probably in a box somewhere offsite, but, until the institution receives another grant, nobody can say where, or precisely which box).
The fact that the video was a selected and edited segment, that the activists who witnessed what happened were being held incommunicado, that every bit of recorded evidence they may have had in their possession was being confiscated – this context was rarely highlighted, with BBC online and radio coverage particularly weak in this respect.
And though you'll hear a pleasant tolling every 15 minutes that sounds like a church bell, it's just a bit of recorded neo-Bavarian stagecraft — no church, no bell.
There were bits of recorded music.
There were occasional bits of recorded accompaniment, but most of Weill's music was performed live by Mr. Donahue and Jono Mainelli, his capable pianist.
In about ten years, Cochrane says, computers will be so advanced that they will be capable of reassembling millions of bits of recorded experience into a facsimile of individual perspective.
For what we did differently: on the first record we were collaborating with Brian Ahern and we weren't writing anything, we were just collecting songs and recording songs from our pasts, and we took a good bit of time recording it.
Sometimes the band played over electronic rhythm tracks, or over sound samples Lenine has used on his studio albums: a rusty door-hinge on "A Rede," a bit of old recorded music in "Jack Soul Brasileiro".
